OOP Questions and Inconsistencies (Spoiler)

[Tim]

No: HPFGUIDX 64515

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "FrisbeeK" <kellyglessner at h...> 
wrote:
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> > Sorry, I'm not sure if I understand you.  I'm talking about 
> Neville -
> >  is that correct?  Were you saying that Neville witnessed death 
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> > he was very young?  That's what I wonder, how do we know that?  
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> > could conceivably have been anytime between Neville's birth and 
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> > he started school.
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> Actually if you think about Neville's parents being permanently 
> confined to St. Mungo's because they are mad - its a kind of 
death.  
> I don't think to witness "death" and see the vestrals that it has 
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> be a literal death necessarily.  
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> When Neville's parents came back from being tortured by Bellatrix 
> completely mad - it was probably a lot like they had died to him. 
He 
> felt that loss of them not knowing who he was.  Remember when the 
> gang goes to see Mr. Weasley at St. Mungo's and they run into 
Neville 
> and his grandmother and his mother runs up and hands him a candy 
> wrapper.  His mother doesn't even recognize that she's giving her 
son 
> some useless piece of paper.
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Ah, but how do we know it's a useless piece of paper?  The very fact 
that it's mentioned (not only this one, but all the others he's 
received from his mom) may be very important somewhere in the next 
two books.

Tim